A Novel Sentence Stress Detection Framework Leveraging Auxiliary Word-Stress Modeling and Loss Optimization

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arXiv:2610.07626v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prosodic stress is a crucial aspect of automatic pronunciation assessment (APA), encompassing both sentence stress detection (SSD) and word stress detection (WSD). SSD highlights semantically salient words that shape discourse meaning, while WSD identifies the primary stressed syllable within each word to ensure lexical clarity. However, most prior work treats SSD and WSD as independent tasks, overlooking their shared reliance on prosodic cues su